Over-riding default value of the simulation folder path in Assembler and Explorer.

Put this in the .cdsinit : 

envSetVal("asimenv.startup" "projectDir" 'string "./simulation")

Andrew

thanks Andrew,

if I share the workspace (as .tar.gz) with colleagues after including these changes in the .cdsinit will they see the changes after unzipping the workspace tarball ?

thanks

thanks Andrew,

if I share the workspace (as .tar.gz) with colleagues after including these changes in the .cdsinit will they see the changes after unzipping the workspace tarball ?

thanks

Assuming the .cdsinit is also in the tarball, then yes. The setting is not stored within the maestro view - it's an environment setting rather than something just used to seed the ADE setup before being saved in the view.

Andrew

thanks for the confirmation Andrew. This is very helpful.

One of the reasons I am trying to set the simulation directory to ./simulation so that the path to the s-parameter files being referred to inside the nport blocks doesn't break when the workspace is shared.

For some of the cells using nport I am using relative path for the s-parameter file  like $PWD/../../../../../abc.s2p

Where $PWD is read by the tool as the simulation directory path all the way up to netlist folder

Perhaps you can suggest a better way to refer to workspace local s-parameter files such that the simulation doesn't fail on account simulator not being able to find the file.

Though it is present inside the workspace but has been unzipped on a different machine.

Yes, a better solution would be to not use a full path on the nport. Specify it as "abc.s2p" (without the directory component) and then use Setup->Simulation Files->Include Path in ADE and set that as "." or "./sparamDir" - i.e. the directory relative to the working directory where your s-parameter files are stored. ADE automatically takes care of converting this path relative to Virtuoso's working directory (if "." is used) into the full path to be passed to spectre on the command line via the "-I" argument (include path). Spectre runs with its working directory as the netlist dir, and looks for any non-local files along the include path passed to it.

Andrew.

In the latest Virtuoso releases, you can also store the S-parameter data in a cellview. In this case, you don't even need to specify an include path (see pages 19-20 of https://support.cadence.com/apex/ArticleAttachmentPortal?id=a1O3w00000ADvLMEA1).

thank you very much Andrew.